page_title: Yuri Gidzenko
section_title: Cosmonaut career
hierarchical_section_title: Yuri Gidzenko / Cosmonaut career
caption_attribution_description: English: Cosmonaut Yuri P. Gidzenko, Soyuz commander for Expedition One, communicates with ground controllers onboard the Zvezda Service Module, one of the components of the Earth-orbiting Internation Space Station (ISS).
context_page_description: Yuri Pavlovich Gidzenko is a Russian cosmonaut. He was a test cosmonaut of the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center. Gidzenko has flown into space three times and has lived on board the Mir and the International Space Station. He has also conducted two career spacewalks. Although he retired on July 15, 2001, he continued his employment by a special contract until Soyuz TM-34 concluded. Since 2004 to May 2009, Gidzenko was the Director of the 3rd department within the TsPK. Since May 2009 he serves as the Deputy Chief of Cosmonaut Training Center TsPK.
context_section_description: From December 1987 to June 1989, Gidzenko attended basic space training as a test cosmonaut candidate. Since September 1989 he attended advanced training as a test cosmonaut candidate. From March to October 1994 he trained for a space flight as a back-up crew commander (17th Primary Expedition/Euro-Mir-94 Program). From November 1994 to August 1995 he attended training for a space flight aboard the Soyuz TM transport vehicle/Mir orbital complex as the Expedition 20 Primary Crew Commander (Euro-Mir-95 Program).
caption: Gidzenko on board the Zvezda Service Module of the ISS communicates with ground controllers.
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